History Main / MemoryWipingCrew

* In a lesser form, in ''KamiNoMizoShiruSekai'' the demons of new hell [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "restart"]](later, they simply changed them) the memories of the girls who's holes got closed.

* In a lesser form, in ''TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' the demons of new hell [[LaserGuidedAmnesia "restart"]](later, they simply changed them) the memories of the girls who's holes got closed.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magical_beings_in_Charmed#Cleaners Cleaners]] in ''Series/{{Charmed}}''. In order to keep magic a secret from humanity they remove the memories of anyone who sees a supernatural event.

When something dramatically outside of normality happens, and the {{Muggles}} are able to see past the {{Masquerade}}, a team (or at the least, a special go-to guy) is often dispatched to erase and/or alter the memories of any witnesses to cover up the abnormality of their mundane lives and keep the existence of the weird stuff a secret (often by using some sort of LaserGuidedAmnesia).

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* All of the shinigami in ''{{Bleach}}'' carry around a neuralizer-style device to replace the memories of anyone who gets a glimpse of their activities. They can't control what memories replace the real ones.

* ''DarkerThanBlack: Gemini of The Meteor'' features a faction of the military that serves as this for people whom get into contact with the super-powered [[CareerKillers Contractors]]. Witnesses that prove too difficult to catch are simply killed.

* One episode of ''The Night Stalker'' had Kolchak narrating the events into a tape recorder, because the government had done this to him, and it hadn't quite taken, or rather not all at once. His memory of the incident ''was'' fading rapidly, and he had to make the recording while he still remembered most of the details.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magical_beings_in_Charmed#Cleaners Cleaners]] in ''{{Charmed}}''. In order to keep magic a secret from humanity they remove the memories of anyone who sees a supernatural event.

* A typically dark example from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Since admitting the existence of an elite army of {{demon hunter}}s would be admitting that there are such things as demons, the Imperium treats the GreyKnights as a state secret enforced by specially-trained psykers. Other {{space marine}}s who fight alongside them go through a lengthy memory-scrubbing afterwards, while Imperial Guardsmen who distinguish themselves are subjected to a hasty process that is both painful and often fatal. [[HeKnowsTooMuch Everyone else is just executed]].

* Occasionally on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' when the crew would accidentally expose themselves (so to speak) to races that weren't ready for interstellar communication, the doctors would somehow do a little surgery to make those memories go away - basically an AlienAbduction. Dr. Pulaski was more prone to doing it than Dr. Crusher.

When something dramatically outside of normality happens, and the {{Muggles}} are able to see past the {{Masquerade}}, a team (or at the least, a special go-to guy) is often dispatched to erase and/or alter the memories of any witnesses to cover up the abnormality of their mundane lives and keep the existence of the weird stuff a secret (often by using some sort of LaserGuidedAmnesia).

* ''DarkerThanBlack: Gemini of The Meteor'' features a faction of the military that serves as this for people whom get into contact with the super-powered [[CareerKillers Contractors]]. Witnesses that prove too difficult to catch are simply killed.

* Lacuna Inc, from ''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' are a non-MIB version, removing memories of bad relationships. They would even set up in the client's home so they would wake up without any idea that something had happened.
* ''{{The Adjustment Bureau}}''

* The Temporal Corps of Simon Hawkes' ''TimeWars'' do this to any locals who get involved with them, though they made an exception for JulesVerne. Not wanting to interfere with the mysterious processes of creativity and stop him writing the books he was supposed to, he kept his memories of time travellers and submarines and such.

* ''TheTroop'' has a little alien whose song causes short-term memory loss so they can cover breaches of TheMasquerade. However, ordinary ear plugs can protect one from the effect.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively TheMenInBlack, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.
* A typically dark example from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Since admitting the existence of an elite army of {{demon hunter}}s would be admitting that there are such things as demons, the Imperium treats the GreyKnights as a state secret enforced by specially-trained psykers. Other {{space marine}}s who fight alongside them go through a lengthy memory-scrubbing afterwards, while Imperial Guardsmen who distinguish themselves are subjected to a hasty process that is both painful and often fatal. [[HeKnowsTooMuch Everyone else is just executed]].

* In ''SamAndMax'' season 2, Agent Superball will emphatically deny time travel, even though the machine is parked right in the room. Any continued discussion of it will provoke him to employ his hypnotic, memory wiping powers. This is used for a puzzle later.

* Early in {{The Kingfisher}}, Helen is used by Vitus as a one-woman {{Memory Wiping Crew}}, giving Marc {{Laser Guided Amnesia}}.

* In the HarryPotter stories, if a wizard lost control and accidentally used his powers, the Ministry of Magic would dispatch a special group called Obliviators to see to it that people's memories of the event were altered.

* In the ArtemisFowl series, the fairies can wipe the memories of any humans who learn about them, as they do to Artemis and his friends at the end of the third book (they all get better). There are even two different techniques they use. One is a block wipe, which just takes out a huge chunk of memory, but the longer the interval of time taken out, the greater chance there is for permanent mental damage. The other is a fine-tuned wipe which removes specific events, people, etc., but takes a lot longer than a block wipe.

* The ''WebOriginal/SCPFoundation'': "Class A Amnesiac administered to all survivors."

* Played with in TheMovie of ''PhineasAndFerb''. [[spoiler:The OWCA doesn't have any memory-erasing tools, so they just steal the villain's amnesia-inator.]]

Compare {{MIB}}, CleanupCrew.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': As Task Force VALKYRIE are effectively the {{MIB}}, there's a good number of members dedicating to dosing witnesses of supernatural events with "Munin Serum," a chemical cocktail that clouds memories.

* Early in {{The Kingfisher}}, Helen is used by Vitus as a one-woman {{Memory Wiping Crew}}, giving Marc {{Laser-Guided Amnesia}}.

* The ''SCPFoundation'': "Class A Amnesiac administered to all survivors."

* The ''SCPFoundation'' does this frequently.

* ''MenInBlack'' is probably the best example. Individual MIB teams had the neuralizer, which could wipe memories for a set amount of time and leave them in a hypnotic state so that new memories could be implanted. While they could often do the jobs themselves, and indeed it was part of their function, for larger memory fixing they could call in special task forces that would come out, neuralize large numbers of people, plant evidence, etc.
** In ''MenInBlack II'' they even use a gigantic neuralizer hidden in the Statue of Liberty, capable of wiping the memories of all New York City.

* Professor X often plays this role in early versions of the XMen such as ''XMenEvolution'', wiping memories when TheMasquerade has been irrevocably blown. During an episode of ''Evolution'' where the Brotherhood show off their powers in the middle of a school football game, he dangerously overexerts his powers by modifying the memory of every spectator. Naturally, the one person whose mind he doesn't ''completely'' wipe is Principal Kelly...